Stranger Things ~The Mirkwood Girl

Chapter 5: Twelve

Mike

After finding the girl, we began the trek back to my place, stopping a few times so Lucas could rest his arms. Dustin and I offered to carry her but he was pretty content on carrying her himself.
When I saw her, for a split second I thought it was El. My first crush, my first kiss, my first and only love. For that split second I thought all the searching, all the pain was worth it. But it wasn't her... it wasn't the girl I searched for every day for, the one I cried over, the one who I haven't stopped thinking about since she disappeared.
The others think she is dead. But I know she isn't, I don't know how I know but I just do. It's like I can feel her beside me, sometimes I think I can hear her voice, but I'm just hearing things. And that makes it hurt even more, that I'm not really hearing her, and she's not beside me.
"Mike, are you alright." I hear Dustin asking and I realise there are tears streaming down my face. "I'm ok." I responded weakly. "No you're not, and I know why. We will find her Mike. I promise." Dustin said trying to reassure me, but a promise like that, well that's almost impossible. But I nodded anyway and smiling faint-heartedly.

Dustin

I know that promising we would find El is a long shot, but I'm sure we will. This girl can help us. Hopefully.
"Do you think she has powers?" I asked as we reached Mike's Basement door. "I'm sure we will find out soon enough." Lucas replied as he carefully lowered the girl onto Mike's couch. "Mike do you have some ice or something we can put on her head? The bruise is pretty bad, also we should probably clean out those cuts." Lucas said not taking his eyes off the girl. "Yeah, I'll go look, I think we have a first aid kit somewhere." He replied before running up the stairs.
"Do you think it's weird," I began, "what?" Lucas looked at me with a puzzled expression, " I dunno maybe that we found a girl, from the same place El came from, in the same place we found El, exactly one year later?" "Yeah I guess so." "Really Lucas? You guess it's wei-" I began before I was interrupted by Mike running down the stairs with a bag of frozen peas and a first aid kit. He handed Lucas the peas and a cloth and he then started cleaning the cuts on the girls arm.
She does look a lot like El, well kind of, I can't really tell while she's sleeping. When the boys finished we waited for her to wake up. Mike and I ended up falling asleep but we were woken up to Lucas violently shaking us, telling us she was awake.
She looked really scared and confused, but we tried our best to comfort her.

Lucas

"Hi my name is Lucas, and this is Mike and Dustin." I started gesturing at the boys. She looked at me with wide eyes and nodded slowly taking everything in. "What's your name?" Mike asked and just like Eleven she pointed at the small tattoo on her wrist "Twelve." She said in almost a whisper. She looked over at El's fort, almost like she recognised it then looked back at me. She looks like Eleven I thought as I examined her face, the only main difference is her blue eyes. "Are you hungry?" Dustin asked her and she nodded, "I'll go get her something." Mike said and ran up to the kitchen.
Dustin walked over the the pile of clothes Mike had gotten out to give her and brought them over to her. "There's the bathroom over there." I gestured at the bathroom making sure there wasn't a repeat of last time. I helped her over, she seemed pretty weak, like she hadn't eaten in days and I waited until she was done so I could help her back over to the couch. Mike came back downstairs with two Eggo's and handed them to her, slowly she ate them.
"How did I get here?" She suddenly spoke up shocking us all that she could speak more than two words. "Um well, we followed Dustin's dog Chewy and he lead us to you, we found you were knocked out so I carried you here." I responded looking at the boys and they nodded. "Oh, thank you." She replied sheepishly, mustering a weak smile. She's pretty. "Lucas are you blushing?" Dustin teased and I pushed him. "How did you get those cuts on your arm?" Mike asked changing the subject. She suddenly looked anxious "I was attacked by something." She looked up at mike with scared eyes "It had long arms and it's face," she shivered "well it didn't have a face." A tear slid down her cheek and she quickly wiped it away. The boys and I looked at each other in horror, we knew exactly what it was that attacked her. "Demogorgan..."